Improvement in curtain-fixtures



ANTHONY ROE-LOFS- 'lmpfovment in CurtainFixture) I Patented Oct. 24,1871.

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4M PHOTO'LITHOSIPAPHI'C UNITED STATES ANTHONY ROELOFS, OF PHILADELPHIA,PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO HIM- SELF AND DANlEL BERGIN, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN CURTAIN-FIXTURES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 120,168, dated October24, 1871.

To all whom it may concern: The object in forming the spurs in the pecu-Be it known that I, ANTHONY ROELOFS, of liar shape as above described isto enable them the city and county of Philadelphia and State to bereadily inserted without splitting the of Pennsylvania, have inventedcertain Improvewood; also, to cause them, when fully inserted ments inCurtain-Fixtures, of which the followto hold the bracket in a rigidposition. The ing is a specification: upper spur e is first driven intothe wood, and The first part of my invention relates to the while in theact of driving the lower spur 6 construction of the brackets used insupporting the sharp and front edge of the upper one will the journalsof the roller and providing them cut into the wood immediately in frontof it, with spurs of peculiar formation for securing thus firmlyembedding itself. The lower spur them to the window-frame. The secondpart of e, which enters in a contrary direction and my invention relatesto the application of a guide across the grain of the wood similar to amorto one of the brackets which projects over the tising-chisel, willmake an aperture to accompulley to retain the shade-cord continuallywithmodate itself, and the friction of its square and in the groove.vertical sides against the vertical walls of the Figure l is a side viewof my improvement opening will cause it to hold firmly and prein havingbrackets of curtain-fixtures, showing vent its being drawn out by anyordinary mothe guide attached. Fig. 2 is an edge view of tion of theshade and roller. The bottom part the same. Fig. 3 is a side view of oneof the of the spur on a line with the lower part of the brackets as madewithout the guide. Fig. 4 is boss, being made as broad and flat aspossible, an edge view of same. Fig. 5 is a perspective also assists inretaining the bracket in position; View, enlarged, of my improvement incurtainresting, as it does, across the grain of the wood, tures. itforms a steady base, and is not liable to be The hanging bracket A ismade in the form pressed down into the wood by the weight of as shown inFigs. 1,2, and 5 of the drawing; the curtain and fixtures, or by thetension of and consists of a hollow semi-spherical boss, b, the cord.The bracket A, Figs. 3 and 4 is used and a shank, c, of suitable length,and is proin supporting the journal at the opposite end vided at theupper end with a spur, d, and at of the roller, and is provided with.spurs simithe lower part with a spur, d. A circular openlar to bracketA, the guide in this case being ing, 0, and a slot or channel, f," aremade in the dispensed with. An arbor, G, formed on the boss for thereception of one of the journals of shank of the bracket A, supports asemicircuthe roller-caps. The spur d at the upper end lar guide, H,which covers the shade-cord where of the shank c is made tapering fromthe back it passes over the pulley and prevents it from part toward thefront, where it terminates in a slipping or flying out of the groove.The said sharp edge on a vertical line with the face of guide should beof such dimensions as to perthe shank, and the back part is inclined atany mit the pulley, while the cord is in the groove, suitable angle tofacilitate its insertion in the to be raised within it sufficiently toallow the wood. The spur d, which is formed on the journal at theroller-end to be passed over the back and at the lower part of thebracket proboss I) and into the slot f, so that when the jourjects atright angles to it, and is made somenal is dropped to its proper bearingin the what in the form of a chisel-bit, with the sides bracket, theperiphery of the pulley will revolve perfectly square and vertical andthe lower within the guide without coming directly in surface made flushand on a line with the botcontact with it; at the same time ample spacetom part of the boss I), while the upper surface remains within theguide for the free passage is made tapering and terminates at itsextremof the knot formed in joining the ends of the ity in a sharpcutting-edge. shade-cord.

If desirable, the arbor G may be dispensed with, and the guide Hattached directly on the shank of the bracket.

I do not Wish to broadly claim the securing of the bracket to thewindow-frame by means of spurs formed on the bracket; but

WVhat I do claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination and arrangement of the bracket A, spurs d and d, andguide H all constructed and operating substantially as and for thepurpose set forth.

2. The arrangement of the arbor G and guide H on the bracket A, in themanner and for the purpose herein specified.

ANTHONY ROELOFS.

Witnesses FRANK STOUT,

